Verb Issue S257 (Sept. 13-19, 2013)

Issue #257 – september 13 to september 19

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arts culture music sasKatoon

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say it ain’t so New federal regulations could decimate our indie music scene

the wizard Q+a with pianist Jan lisiecki

the family + 20 feet from stardom Film reviews

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strike a Pose Modelling in Saskatchewan. 4 - 5 / local

say it ain’t so...New federal regulations could dam-age our indie music scene. 6 - 7 / local

editorialHere’s our thoughts on drinking and driving. 8 / editorial

commentsHere’s what you had to say about privatizing Canada Post. 10 / commeNts

Q + a with Jan lisieckiPianist talks Chopin. 14 / Q + a

nightlife Photos We visited Odeon + Diva’s24 - 29 / NightliFe

listingsLocal music listings for September 13 through September 21. 20 - 21 / listiNgs

the family + 20 feet from stardomThe latest movie reviews. 22 - 23 / Film

on the Bus Weekly original comic illustrations by Elaine M. Will. 30 / comics

four in oneShannon Rose invokes the changing seasons. 15 / arts

sumPtuous steakWe visit Station Place. 18 / Food + driNk

the tiPPing PointAuthority Zero talk punk. 15 / arts

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musicTim Hicks, Chali 2NA + The Good Lovelies 19 / music

games + horoscoPesCanadian criss-cross puzzle, horoscopes, and Sudoku. 31 / timeout

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iron & wineOn his latest album. 16 / cover


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he first thing you notice about Holly Stewart is her eyes. A disarming

shade of blue, they’re not quite tur-quoise, but not far from it. At their centres, surrounding the pupils, are flecks and rings of marbled hazel.

They’re the kind of eyes that light up a face, make it really stand out in a crowd. And seated in a busy coffee shop downtown, Holly Stewart cer-tainly stands out. Tall, with porcelain skin and a naturally lithe build, she’s the kind of girl you see walking down the street and think, “Oh, she must be a model.”

Think that, and you’d be right. “When I was younger, I never really thought about getting into modeling,” says Stewart with a smile. “But a lot of friends and family said I should try. So I thought about it and I ended up taking

some classes at SHE [Modelling] to help boost my confidence.”

Wait a second … a confidence boost? Why would a young, pretty girl like Stewart need a confidence boost?“I’ve always been kind of shy,” admits Stewart. “And for most of my life, I thought I was too skinny. I’ve

always been uncomfortable with that.” So she started taking modeling and acting classes, and soon her con-fidence began to grow. Eventually, Stewart started landing the odd job here and there. Then one day, a few years back, she went to a model and talent audition and talked to a man named Charles Stuart.

He suggested she go to the Faces West International Model and Talent Convention in Vancouver.

In an upstairs room of the SHE Model-ling agency, Charles Stuart is sitting at a table, eating a piece of Babybel cheese.

This is the calm before the storm. In a few minutes from now, established models and aspiring models will begin filing into the room, one by one, to talk with him.

See, Stuart is kind of a big deal in the Canadian modeling industry. A former model who once did a photo-shoot with Twiggy back in the ‘60s, Stuart opened his own modeling agency in Vancouver (Charles Stuart International Models) back in 1982. A decade later, he created the Faces

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West International Model and Talent Convention, which brings together agents, scouts, and managers from all over the world. And in 2004, he discovered supermodel Coco Rocha.

So what’s he doing in Saskatch-ewan? Looking to discover some new talent, naturally.

With a sheet of paper on the table in front of him, Stuart takes a bite of cheese and says,”When new people come in they have an information sheet they have to fill out and I talk to them about things. What are their hob-bies? What’s their favourite movie? I get them to talk about themselves.”

Then tapping the sheet of paper, which lists categories down the left margin, he says, “Then I look at things like runway technique, poster, poise, presence, overall appearance, confi-dence, acting, presentation, voice.”

Thing is, though, even if a person scores high in all these categories, it doesn’t necessarily mean they’ll become a successful model.

“You can’t tell by simply looking at a person,” says Stuart. “Yes, you can get a general idea. But the thing I’ve found over the years, when people walk in and you meet them, you can have the most beautiful person in front of you and go ‘Wow!’ but put them in front of a camera and nothing works.”

Stuart shifts in his chair and says, “Then you can have the plainest person walk in, put them in front of a camera, and magic happens. A lot of the top models, if you met them on the street, you probably wouldn’t think much about them.”

Even then — even if they wow in their audition and the camera loves them — there’s one more element necessary to success.

“Personality,” says Stuart. “Person-ality sells. It’s what clients want to see. They want projection on camera, they want someone who is outgoing. Not just someone who stands there and looks pretty.”

That is something Holly Stewart admits she sometimes struggles with.

Sure, she’s modeled overseas for two-and-a-half months in Japan. And yes, she’s moving to Manhattan soon to work at Wilhelmina Models, one of the top agencies in the world. But, at times, Stewart still finds it tricky to sell herself.

“Like I mentioned before, I’ve always been shy and laid-back,” she says, “I’m not a super bubbly person. I don’t want to be like that, it’s not me. I’ve been told by a lot of agents that everything else is great, but that, personality-wise, I have to try to put myself out there more. It’s not like I’m serious all the time. I love to laugh and joke around, but it takes me time to warm up to people.” And the longer you talk to Stewart, the more you realize that last statement is spot on. A tad hesitant at first, with her arms crossed across her stomach, Stewart slowly begins loosening up with each passing minute. She relaxes, her arms uncross, and she begins to laugh and smile more readily.

The other thing you realize when you sit down and chat with her is that,

for a young woman of 18 years, she’s remarkably put together and level-headed — something that should play in her favour when she heads to New York in the fall.

When a lot of people look at the modeling industry, they see beautiful people living glamorous lives filled with photo shoots, fashion designers and glitzy parties. And while that can certainly be a part of it, there’s much more to the industry than meets the eye. There’s the never-ending parade of castings you have to go to if you actually want to make money. Think of going to a bunch of interviews, day in and day out, and you’ll get the picture. Then there’s the fact that most people live in “model apartments” with the same people they’re competing with for jobs.

And don’t forget the image demands placed on models by the industry, and their constant need to deal with body-size pressures. “One thing that came as a shock to me was when I was working in Japan and they asked me to lose three centime-tres around my waist,” says Stewart. “When she asked me that it knocked me back a bit. I want to model, but I want to feel comfortable in my own body, too.”

From there, Stewart reminisces about the last time she stayed in New York. “When I was there, living with all those models, it seemed like none of them ate actual meals. Just an apple or something here and there,” she says. “And that’s their own personal thing, but I want to stay balanced. I want to keep healthy.”

She also wants to make the most of her upcoming work at Wilhelmi-na, but, true to form, remains realis-tic about how her life in Manhattan might unfold.

“I’m not going there looking to be-come a multi-millionaire or anything,” she says, against showing a glimpse of wisdom beyond her years. “I’d just like to live there for a while, get a few decent jobs, make some money … I

definitely want to go to school, but I don’t know what I want to do for a career. So, for now, I’m going to do this and see where it takes me.”


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say it ain’t so ...

rant Palko sensed change was coming. And it wasn’t the kind

of change he was hoping for.Back in April, when a story broke

that the Royal Bank of Canada had outsourced 45 information technology jobs to workers in India — workers who were report-edly brought in under the federal temporary foreign worker program — feces hit the clichéd fan. People around the country vehemently criticized the move, saying it was re-placing Canadian jobs with cheaper, foreign ones, and called it wrong-headed and unethical.

Soon as he heard this, Palko, a longtime booker for Amigos Cantina, had a feeling his venue and other sim-ilar venues around the province were going to take one on the chin. “We knew it was coming,” says Palko, “My boss and I looked at each other when the RBC scandal broke and when the government said they were bringing in tougher legislation. We just knew bad news was coming our way.”

The bad news came shortly after, when Jason Kenney, Canada’s minister of employment, social de-velopment and multiculturalism, an-nounced reforms to the temporary foreign worker program. Reforms that require, “a new $275 process-ing fee for each temporary foreign worker position that an employer requests through a Labour Market Opinion (LMO).”

Now, you may be thinking to yourself, “So what? If the govern-ment wants to penalize companies who bring in cheap foreign labour to undercut wages, that’s a good initia-tive, right?”

Not really. Because of these new regulations, and the oversights contained within, the indie music industry in our country is set to suf-fer. How? Well, it means the cost of bringing international bands to bars, restaurants or coffee shops in Can-ada has spiked significantly. Now, any venue whose primary business is something other than music must pay a fee of $275 per band member

(whether it be a musician, sound person, tour manager … whatever) when it applies for an LMO. What’s more, there’s also an additional $150 per member for a work visa.

All this could mean dark days ahead for Saskatchewan’s indie music scene.

Fees for foreign musicians being brought to Canada is nothing new.

It used to be that if you were a bar, restaurant or coffee house, you had to pay a one-time installment of $150 per band member, up to a max-imum of $450. If the band was going to play at a few different places dur-ing their stay, typically this fee was split between the various venues.

Not anymore. Now, every non-exempt venue must pay the fee individually if they want to host international acts.

“This is completely ridiculous,” says Palko. “It was a hassle before, something we had to struggle with, but it wasn’t worth fighting against

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because the fees were minimal. But the way things are now, it means we can’t host out-of-country bands. I’ve already had to cancel shows. I’ve already had promoters I’ve been dealing with for years tell me they can’t do shows here anymore. That greatly affects our bottom line and our reputation as, I think, a premiere music venue in Western Canada. We just can’t afford it.”

Not only is this a slap in the face to small business it’s also a poke in the eye to concert-goers.

Think about it. In the absence of up-and-coming

international bands, and having booked as many touring bands as possible, venues like Amigos are going to have to find acts to fill the void. Where will they find them?

Locally, of course.But what happens if more new,

local bands don’t start to emerge,

and the indie scene gets over-satu-rated and homogenized with famil-iar acts from our own area code?

Eric Tessier loves going to concerts. He loves seeing a band perform that

he’s never seen play live before. There’s something special about it. Something more engaging and more visceral than listening to the same music at home.

But Tessier isn’t simply a lover of concerts. He’s also a member of Indigo Joseph, a high-energy rock band from Regina. And for him, he sees this new legislation as a double edged sword — with one side much sharper than the other.

“I think there may be some posi-tives for domestic bands potentially having some more opportunity,” says Tessier. “And while I do see that side of the coin, I can’t help but think the positives are going to be a short-term thing. Canadian bands will be filling these bills for a little while, but then eventually some of these venues will probably close because it’s the touring acts that are really bringing out the fans. They

have the name that attracts audi-ence members.”

If that does happen, if some of these non-exempt venues shut down, not only could there be less shows to see in Saskatchewan, but shows of a lesser quality.

And that doesn’t bode well for anyone — promoters, clubs, artists, or fans.

“I’m inclined to feel that, cultur-ally, it’s not good for the develop-ment of new culture and new music,” says Tessier.

“It may lead to a kind of mono-culture,” he continues. “We live in a global community nowadays. Canadians are listening to music from outside of Canada, and they should have the ability to see those acts live. Cultural cross-pollination is important to fans and musicians.”

And while neither Tessier nor Palko think the federal government intentionally set out to harm our in-die music scene, both think it would be prudent for them to go back, re-examine, and change the negative aspects of the legislation.

They are not alone, either. On-line, at www.change.org, more than 100,000 people have signed a peti-tion telling the government “don’t ruin live music” in Canada.

“People need to keep signing these petitions and tweeting at their MPs, MLAs, Jason Kenney,” says Palko. “Hopefully they’ll come to their senses … but I doubt it.”


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This article is part one of a two-part se-ries on drinking and driving in Saskatch-ewan. This week’s piece examines the current situation, and next week’s piece will propose some new solutions.

t’s no great secret that drinking and driving is a serious problem here in

Saskatchewan, as we are some of the worst offenders in the country. But we believe that part of the issue is the current methods we use to deter and prosecute drunk drivers, and that a more comprehensive ap-proach would be far more effective.

To start, let’s review the current state of affairs: according to Statistics Canada, Saskatchewan has some of the worst drunk driving statistics in the country. Take our number of police-reported impaired driving incidents, for example. In 2011, we had 683.35 incidents for every 100,000 people in the province. In case you’re wonder-ing, that’s the highest rate among prov-inces. It’s also almost triple the national average (261.80) and more than five times the rate of the lowest province, Ontario (129.56). And that’s not even the worst of it.

When you look at per-capita rates of impaired driving deaths, things get even more grim. In 2009 (the last year from which comprehensive data is available) we had 8.44 impaired driv-ing deaths per 100,000 people — again the highest among provinces. And again, almost triple the national rate of 3.18 per 100,000 people.

These numbers are simply unac-ceptable, especially in a province that has the highest legal drinking age (19) and the lowest legal limit for blood-alcohol content (in Saskatchewan, consequences for drinking and driving can kick in if you have a BAC of .04). Simply put: something has to be done about this. But what?

At the moment, anyone caught drinking and driving with a BAC greater than .04 in Saskatchewan immediately has his or her license suspended for 24 hours. A second offence leads to another 24-hour suspension and a mandatory Driving Without Impairment class. For every offence afterwards, you face a 90-day suspension and mandatory addic-tions screening. If you are convicted of driving while impaired (a BAC higher than .08) then you face the following punishments: for a first offence, you receive a one-year license suspension; second offence, three-year license suspension; third offence or greater, a five-year suspension.

As for monetary punishment, minimum court fines begin at $1,500 for impaired drivers, which includes a $500 fine in accordance with the Safe Driver Recognition program. However, it must be noted that this is just a minimum penalty. There are absolutely no maximums for fines, which are ultimately up to the judge’s discretion. What’s more, some offenders may lose the benefits of insurance. For instance, if you get into an accident you have to pay

for all the damages, while facing a minimum fine of $600.

So that’s the punishment side of things. On the prevention front, many places (like Saskatoon, Regina, and Prince Albert) have implemented a road safety program called Report Im-paired Drivers (RID). How this works is easy: if anyone sees a suspected im-paired driver, he or she is encouraged to call 911 and report said driver to the police, thereby hopefully making the streets safer for everyone.

But all of these efforts are clearly not enough, particularly in the area of repeat drunk driving offenders. After all, this past summer a man from Saskatchewan was con-victed of driving while drunk — for the 19th time. That would suggest that what we are doing now to prevent DUIs, and especially multiple DUIs, isn’t really working. This is a clear problem in Saskatchewan, and we need to approach it differently if we want a different outcome.Because while we applaud our elected officials for taking some measures to improve the situation, we can’t help but think that the solutions they have arrived at only addresses part of the problem. Simply punishing people who do bad things doesn’t really address root causes, since penalties can only be enacted after an offence has already taken place. Instead, we believe that we also need to empower people to make better choices, so that they don’t get behind the wheel after drinking in the first place.

Check back next week to see how we propose to lower drinking and driving rates in Saskatchewan.

These editorials are left unsigned because they represent the opinions of Verb magazine, not those of the indi-vidual writers.

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on toPic: last week we asked what you thought about privatizing canada post. here's what you had to say:

– I agree canada post should be gradually privatized. They had quite some nerve telling that guy “we won’t deliver to your house anymore because your front step is too high.” All businesses every-where need equal competition to be fair to us, the “customer”

– Wouldn’t getting rid of Canada Post just make it more difficult for people who live out in the boonies

to get mail? Do we care to subsi-dize there choices though? Just a though EK

– Regarding privatizing Canada Post, are you nuts? For one thing I noticed you didn’t mention anything about rural mail delivery and delivery in the north. Sure they can privatize the post office in countries like the U.K., Austria, the Netherlands and Germany. Those

countries are puny in compari-son to the vast territory covered by Canada. At best a privatized Canada Post could be required to continue rural and northern delivery for two, three, at most five years. But after that good luck. No business would buy Canada Post if they were required to do all rural delivery and northern delivery forever. And to prove the point, UPS and other competitive para-dises to you don’t deliver to many rural and northern areas, they let Canada Post do it. Also, much of your editiorial is just full of state-ments like privatizing Canada Post “would allow our postal service to be run more like a business and less like a dysfunctional govern-ment department.” That’s just right-wing claptrap. Get real. I’d love to see Harper try to privatize Canada Post. All his rural support would melt away, including in Alberta, and the Tories would be in the political hinterland for a decade or more.

– Probably parcelling of Canada Post would free up some money that is tied up in Crown assets etc which should make for better service to all Canadians. I’d be interested in a partial privatization maybe for five or ten yrs to see how it works, then move on if it seems to be a good idea.

– I don’t know about getting rid of the postal service. Canada Post has been a part of our heritage for so long that it’s important to preserve our history.

– Canada Post definitely needs to give its head a shake. Refusing to deliver mail because of the height of a stair? Competition breeds a healthy dose of reality , and it seems like CP could use some of this. I understand refusing service for a legitimate reason (unshov-eled stairs presents an actual safe-ty hazard, but the height of a step? Ridiculous. Not sure if getting rid of CP entirely is the answer.

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– RED LIGHT CAMERAS SHOULD NOT BE SCRAPED!!! There was an accident earlier in the evening on Mon Sept 9,2013 at Parliament and Albert in Regina,Sask caused when a black SUV eastbound on Parliament ran a red light and hitted a vintage convertible and another car. An ambulance and a police SUV shoed up. The police usually don’t attend accidents unless there are injuries or fatalities and if drugs or alcohol are involved. Thank goodness there are RED LIGHT CAMERAS at that busy intersection which automatically take pictures of vehicles that run red lights!! :0

In response to “Smile! You’re on camera,”

Editorial #255 (August 30,2013)

– Yes maybe red light cameras are a cash grab but they wouldn’t even be necessary if people would not run red lights in the first place!



– Less cameras at red light inter-cections and more police patrols almost nobody runs a red light is they see a cop patrolling the intecection



– “decriminalization” is saying “i don’t approve of what you’re do-ing, but i’m not going to stop you” where as “legalization” is saying “go ahead, anytime, anyplace, no-one can stop you. (Response to legalizing marijuana)

In response to “Marijuana should be legal-

ized,” Editorial #253 (August 16,2013)

– Contruction zone speed limits are put up for a reason for the safety of the workers just be pa-tient and respect the speed limits.

In response to “On the road again,” Editorial

#254 (August 23,2013)

sound off

– Wow gotta a chance to cruise along the south bridge and it is slick but why is there a traffic light at clancy dr..talk about slow-ing the flow..

– They city is really stupid for taking away the bus stops at confed mall! I think they should bring it back!

– Nixon brought the boys home from vietnam. Lets not forget that!

– All drivers should know the basic rules of the road otherwise how did you get your license?

– Well we might have kinda crappy medicare system but at least we have some doctors like bone surgeons who are good and have good tech. They do a good job of fixing us when we break!

– The only day more crowded than today in Saskatchewan is tomor-row in Saskatchewan!

– What’s with all the anti-God texts being printed? You’re just looking to shoot down the truth and you know it!

– I will share my thoughts on Jesus anytime I want. Thank you very much!

– Lots of back and forth on com-ments about loving God or not. Respect for each is all you need.

– My street finally got swept! Just in time for it to get covered by fall-ing leaves....

– Red car on 20 and L or some-thing blasts past family partway across the road BE CAREFUL you might not want to stop the three seconds to let them go but you’ll hate more if you don’t and ac-cidentally hurt someone

– There is no excuse to not be polite to servers if something is screwed up with your food fine but explain it in a respectful way accidents happen.

– There’s always someone who is worse off than you and doing better than you. And you are that person to other people.

– Riders charged with assault should be booted off the team I don’t care what they do for us but we should not be supporting those two it’s disgraceful

– Original cheese whiz is grey but I will still eat the crap outta it

– First years look hilarious all dressed up fancy for class wait til second year when university life beats you down you’re lucky if you make it to school with your teeth brushed

– You snooze you loose! Think about that next time your com-plaining about what I took! See you never ahole


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– For some reason public servants in Sask from Social Services to the Crowns have this wierd arrogance and apathy. Saw it in the hospital too. Like they don’t get what civil service means or requires.

– Bus shelters are not garbage bins! Please do not leave your trash in the shelters it attracts wasps and mice! Let’s try to keep Saskatoon a clean city!

– I yam what I yam.

– Sask is booming, but no one can afford housing here. As a student who’s been at the UofS for 2 years I have moved 3 times and each time into smaller and crappier apart-ments. Why can’t the city have more affordable housing geared at students? We’re a huge portion of the city’s population. Make it enviting and more students might come here!

– Being back on campus with the community serivce-learning op-portunities cut just doesn’t seem right!!!

– To the person who said to send dangerous criminals to Mars. Are you gonna pay to send them cause I sure as hell won’t think before you speak!

– You know you’re DOWNtown when you don’t remember why you’re there.

– It’s BACK 2 SKOOL YALL :D

– The weird relationship between the media and politicians is freaky bottomfeaders existing on the crap of the other looking at you Obama

– The customer is every business’ most important business- no busi-ness can be a business without a

customer even if the “customer” is not labelled “customer”

– The foose is not loose.

– In the end only kindness matters.

– Shorter days cooler nights <3 fall but not what comes after

– People meed to learn how to let drivers merge onto a busy road (sp Circle). If a car is driving on an on ramp approaching Circle MOVE OVER it’s unbelievable how many idiots stay in the right hand lane

toodling along and not budging an inch this causes the other driver to slow down to merge around you. Get real if you can’t handle simple road rules maybe you shouldn’t be driving.

– Any way we can stop young kids from revving their engines and peeling out while driving in traf-fic? No? Fine I’ll go back to being a grumpy old man and forgetting I used to do the same.

– Lack of respect! On the bus if you see someone who needs a seat more than you, stand up it’s greatly appreciated. thank you.

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pianist Jan lisiecki on his latest recording and the intricate art of interpretation by alex J macpherson

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arlier this year, Jan Lisiecki released his latest recording on

Deutsche Grammophon, one of the world’s preeminent classical music labels. Chopin: Études is a tour de force from the young pianist from Calgary. His interpretations of the Études, a series of studies com-posed by Frédéric Chopin around 1830, are as imaginative as they are daring. Lisiecki likes to dig deep, extracting sublime simplicity and purity of sound from some of the most technically demanding pi-ano music ever composed. Chopin: Études also marks a transition for Lisiecki, who is 18 years old and still at the beginning of his career. After a meteoric rise, Lisiecki is fig-uring out how to build a career that can transcend the notion of child-hood brilliance. Chopin: Études is a fitting start, establishing him as a talented and mature interpreter. I recently spoke with Lisiecki, who was rehearsing in Poland, about his new recording and his egalitarian view of classical music.

Alex J MacPherson: Earlier this year Deutsche Grammophon released your latest recording, Chopin: Études. What was making the CD like?

Jan Lisiecki: I like to think of anything, be it a concert or a CD, as a performance. I think you still have to

find that way to keep the natural flow of a concert, to keep the energy, that special effect, because you can’t really replicate that by playing something a hundred times. What works, in my

case at least, is to play something else. I’d play for example some Bach or some Mozart or some other Chopin — something different — to put me in a different mood, to almost cleanse the palette before you start thinking again of Chopin and again of the Études.

AJM: Your interpretations are very bold, very stunning, and very different.

JL: We’ve heard people play it before, we’ve heard people record it before, so it’s not brand new music for us. It’s not about bringing the music to the people, because people know it already. It’s about bringing it in your way, in an interesting way for you. And for me, I really wanted to show the musical side. I think the technique is there not really as a centerpiece; it’s only there to serve the music so you can show the beauty of the piece.

AJM: The Études are complicated and technically difficult, of course, but there’s a certain simplicity you seem to be after, on the record and in concert.

JL: My favourite quote by Chopin, absolute favourite, is: “Simplicity is the final achievement. When one has played vast quantities of notes and more notes, it is simplicity that emerges as the crowing reward of art.” That’s fantastic. I completely agree. You have so many people who approach Chopin with this over-indulgent romanticism, thinking it has to be [that way], but I think Chopin was not simple as a composer, but the purity of the music speaks for itself.

AJM: You spend a lot of time playing in Europe and the United States. But you

also play often in Canada. How impor-tant is that to you?

JL: I love the fact that I am Canadian and I’m proud of it, so I’m happy to go explore my country and share what-ever I can in my own place. Of course the audiences in Europe, there’s more of them and there’s more people who are interested in classical, there are also more people. I’m happy when I can do both, when I can play in Saskatoon and anywhere in [Europe].

AJM: It seems like your career so far has been aimed at opening up this music to people who may not have heard it before, to giving people a completely new experience.

JL: It’s a completely different experi-ence. And it’s something that should be experienced by everybody, so they can decide for themselves. That’s something which I think many people see classical music with this veil of uncertainty, and also that it’s not so interesting, that it’s not so fun, it’s kind of boring. But I think the more I have been to concerts myself, I’ve found that you just enjoy being there, that you en-joy listening to this music and finding your own stories to it. The music can speak for itself.

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a fter releasing her first album in 2008, Shannon

Rose, a singer and songwriter from Ottawa, decided to spend a year away from the stage. But she couldn’t put down her guitar or her notepad. During her sabbatical, Rose, whose sound lands somewhere between folk and soft, melodic rock, spent her time writing songs and dream-ing up ideas. In 2011, she began work on an ambitious project: four EPs inspired by and coincid-ing with the four seasons.

“We came up with the idea of doing four EPs, one for each sea-son,” Rose says. “The idea was to have all the songs written, record-

ed, and released in their respective seasons over the course of a year. By the end of it I was pretty ex-hausted. But it was challenging in the best possible way.” After releas-ing the four EPs, one every three months, Rose decided to collect them on one album. Seasons, which includes all 20 songs, was released in January. It is a sprawling collec-tion of delicate, well-crafted songs that evoke a slew of emotions.

Rose says the project began life as an experiment. She wanted to understand how the weather affected her creative process, or if it had any bearing on songwriting at all. The results were predictable. Although the songs that make up

Seasons were not necessarily writ-ten about the changing weather, the lingering mood of each season bled into the songs. “The winter one is probably more contempla-tive than the summer one,” Rose says. “Spring sort of has a fresh, renewing feeling and fall is maybe a bit more thoughtful. They seemed to take on some of those qualities you’d associate with the seasons.”

The ideas that pervade Seasons are more than just lyrical, how-ever. Songs like “Winter Alibi” and “Corners,” which were inspired by the darkest months of the year, are slow and measured, simple guitar songs that hint broadly at the loneliness of a frigid weekend in

January. “Open Water” and “Under The Moon,” on the other hand, are full of possibility — charming acoustic grooves reminiscent of languorous afternoons under the scorching sun. Although it was conceived as a writing exercise, an opportunity to explore how the arc of a year affects the soul, Seasons emerged as a strong foundation for a promis-ing career. Rose’s pop sensibil-ity and ephemeral voice give the album both strength and charac-ter. Seasons is an extremely long album, but its length should be seen as an invitation to soak up four different ideas, separate yet bound together forever.

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four in onepop songwriter shannon rose examines the changing seasons on her latest record by alex J macphersoN

t he first song on The Tip-ping Point — the latest

album from Mesa, Arizona punk rock band Authority Zero — opens with the squeal of two gui-tars feeding back before launch-ing into a series of blistering power chords. “No Other Place” is a strong and energetic punk rock song, a return to form for the band, who haven’t released a record since 2010, and proof that the SoCal punk movement isn’t dead. Singer Jason DeVore hasn’t been this excited about a record since the band released A Passage In Time in 2002.

“Mostly I think it’s just the energy of the production and the

writing process of the album,” he says. “A Passage In Time was such a pure early album that everyone was so excited about at such an early age. Everything was sparking on all cylinders. With time, ups and downs, there are different emotions that come with each album. But it was almost like a fresh start, a fresh energy with The Tipping Point.”

Authority Zero was formed in 1994 by three high school friends. DeVore came onboard shortly after. Following in the footsteps of bands like Bad Religion and Pennywise, who created an entirely new style of punk music, the band built a career based on political songs, machine-gun drumming, and

infectious power chord pop hooks. At the same time, DeVore and his bandmates have always been will-ing to experiment with new ideas — an attitude manifested on The Tipping Point.

“That’s kind of what we do as musicians,” DeVore says, refer-ring to songs like “Shakedown in Juarez,” a potent attack on im-migration policy, and “Struggle,” a reggae anthem that shows the band at their most relaxed. “There’s not supposed to be any boundaries or any one set thing that you’re doing. We’ve always tried to stretch things out, try all different types of music, different styles of music.”

But it hasn’t been easy.

DeVore is the only original mem-ber still in the band. He has ridden out the upheavals caused by person-nel changes many times. “We’ve had people in and out since 2008, when Bill [Marcks] first left the group,” he says. “It’s been somewhat unstable and unfocused in a way. We’ve been putting all the effort in, working our asses off, mainly just trying to keep the group together.”

But the band’s new lineup, which includes Sean Sellers and Brandon Landelius, has created a new kind of energy. “The tipping point really was getting the right people in play,” DeVore says, referring to Malcolm Gladwell’s book about how small events can

have dramatic consequences. “That brought everything together. And I think it shows again in the writing and the vibrance that this album’s got.” And while The Tipping Point might be Authority Zero’s fifth album, DeVore can’t help but think that it marks a new beginning.

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ghost on ghostIron & wine mines american music and the american dream on his latest album by alex J macpherson

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i like making a big soup pot for all those types of music, where you just add them all in, stir it up, and see what happens.

sam beam

t is natural but wrong to think of Iron & Wine as a singer-songwriter project.

Sam Beam, who has been releas-ing records using the name Iron & Wine since 2002, has certainly played the part of the bearded folk messiah. His early records were simple and skeletal, collec-tions of gently propulsive songs shaped by the ineffable interplay between a man and his guitar. In 2006, he transformed the Postal Service’s throbbing single “Such Great Heights” into a lodestar for the terminally hip. But these events do not define him; his mu-sical vision cannot be defined in just a few words. Beam has spent the last decade building on the foundation laid by his first two records. Each album he releases pushes his sound, and his musical ideas, into fertile new territory. His fifth, Ghost On Ghost, which was released in April, reinforces his commitment to sonic expan-sion — and his faith that the warmth of his voice will link his albums together.

“I feel emboldened by the fact that I have a kind of recognizable voice,” Beam says. “It’s not a very powerful voice. But it’s a recogniz-able sound. I kind of realized early on and was emboldened — maybe

naïvely — by the fact that there would always be this common ele-ment, which was my voice. So I felt free to try different types of music because it would always be tied into

the songs that came before. Because it was me.” Ghost On Ghost, which draws its title from a line by the American poet James Wright, is the most complex record Beam has ever made. It is a melting pot of sounds. Traditional folk and country ideas are laced with unorthodox jazz arrange-ments, soaring Appalachian melo-dies, and swampy blues rhythms. “Honestly, it’s not too much of a cerebral thing when I’m doing it,” Beam says of his fusion of American sounds. “It sounds cerebral when I’m talking about it, but it’s pretty intui-tive. I like making a big soup pot for all those types of music, where you just add them all in, stir it up, and see what happens.”

The biggest addition to Beam’s musical toolbox is jazz, itself a hybrid of European and African-American influences that emerged in the early part of the last century. Many of the

songs on Ghost On Ghost are shot through with ideas pioneered a life-time ago; others, like the staggering “Lovers’ Revolution,” have more in common with Mingus than Dylan. “I have been playing with jazz players for the last few years and I think it’s seeped in, where I can finally figure out how to apply it to my records,” Beam says. “It’s something I’ve always enjoyed listening to but never really had the experience playing that kind of music. I was just doing it for a hobby. I still feel like I do it for a hobby. But I like the American song narrative, that narrative of how we came up with jazz music and what all went into it. And how it affected the rest.”

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Beam’s determination to expand his range beyond the lively roots and folk arrangements that appeared on 2007’s The Shepherd’s Dog and 2011’s Kiss Each Other Clean, affected his process.

In the past, he has allowed songs to chart their own course, to develop free from outside interference. But the instrumentation and arrangements on the new record demanded a certain amount of planning. Beam wrote the songs in much the same way as he has always written the songs. But instead of spending time experimenting in the studio, looking for inspiration, he spent a great deal of time dreaming up ideas before the tape began to roll. “Before going into the studio I did quite a few demos of these songs,” he says, “and kind of got a feel for what kind of arrangements they’d be and the tone I was looking for.”

“Caught In The Briars” opens the record with a disjointed ca-

cophony of instrument noise and drums before settling into a synco-pated groove driven by a sparkling acoustic guitar lick and elevated by a chorus of spongy horns. After a fairly conventional series of verses and choruses, “Caught In The Briars” launches into a long long piano coda — a potent reminder that Ghost On Ghost is a melting pot and evidence of Beam’s desire to experiment with as many musical ideas as possible. “Caught In The Briars” also introduc-es the central theme of the record. “The blurry details around the edges are these stories of this couple, these people,” Beam says. “I kind of collect-ed songs that had these people, this couple, and it was fun to imagine that they were the same couple.” Just as the music on the album is uniquely American, so too are Beam’s stories. “There’s a lot of unhappiness,” he says of the unnamed characters that populate the album. “They’re not settled in their station or where they are, always looking over the horizon for something better. That’s the American idea. You can move to another town and reinvent yourself. It’s not always true but it’s definitely part of our makeup.”

Which is not to say that Beam has abandoned his roots. “Winter Prayers” is the simplest song on the record and also one of the most

profound. Casting Beam’s languid vocal delivery, anguished yet some-how detached, against a mournful backdrop of piano and soft guitar, “Winter Prayers” is made even more potent by its position on the album, between two sides of experimental roots music. The songs are linked by Beam’s voice, but also by his writing style — always incisive, always mov-ing. The songs on Ghost on Ghost are about a pair of people experiment-ing with themselves and with each other. But the tone changes as the record progresses. Just as “Caught In The Briars” illuminates the feeling of limitless potential that accompanies new love (“Back alleys full of rain / and everything shining / as holy as she can be / the trick’s in the timing”), “Winter Prayers” captures a different reality: “Why you’d follow her there? / Milwaukee’s a deaf ear for winter prayers / There’s no night, there’s no day / With only hope in your pocket, and hell to pay.” Both songs, however, point to the idea embedded in the record’s title: that the moment when two lives intersect is the most important of all.

“It really was one of the most rep-resentative lives about these people and the characteristics of these people that resonate through all the songs,” Beam says of the characters and the album’s title. “They’re tied

together not just physically but also spiritually.” After a pause he adds, “But it also says we were dead before we even started.” This idea is bound up in the last two songs on the al-bum, “Lovers’ Revolution” and “Baby Center Stage.” The former a sprawl-ing assemblage of fragmented horns, pulsating jazz rhythms, and pop-in-fluenced background vocals; the lat-ter is a rootsy ballad in the tradition of the Band’s “Makes No Difference” — a stunningly beautiful love song that seems to transcend both time and distance. And by turning back to the impossible freedom, the unlim-ited possibility, of love, Beam reveals something about himself: “In your restless days / I made my bed, I dug my grave / In your restless nights / We both swam blind, Somehow fall-ing into the light.”

This sense of potential has always animated Iron & Wine, whether Beam is performing alone onstage or in front of an enormous band. Ghost

On Ghost is merely the latest in a long string of albums that pushed the boundaries of what Iron & Wine could be. Beam concedes that this can be problematic, especially for fans of his music. “There are lots of artists I’ve felt that way about, like, man, I really liked what you did before,” he admits. “I get it. But, you know, as far as I approach working it doesn’t really come into it, unfortu-nately. It probably should. I could probably put my kids through college and not worry about it. But at the same time I can’t fake it.”

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sumPtuous steak

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red wine cooler

Anyone who is a fan of wine knows that a good red is hard to beat. But let’s say the red you have isn’t quite up to snuff. Just a bottle someone left at your place. If you ever find yourself in that situation, try this recipe to spice it up a bit.

ingredients

4oz red wine2oz lemon-lime soda 2oz ginger ale

directions

Fill a highball glass with ice cubes. Pour the wine, lemon-lime soda and gingerale over the ice. Stir well. Garnish with a twist of lemon and a slice of orange. Serve.

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saskatoon station place — a unique dining experience with some serious steak. by adam hawboldt

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and as i get closer towards the centre, the more the blue-cheese-and-rosemary sauce begins to stand out.

adam hawboldt

askatoon Station Place is unique, to say the least. There’s some-

thing cool and elegant and anti-quated about the place. Maybe it’s the antique chandeliers, or the ornate mirrors, or the old train posters, or the brass lug-gage racks above the windows. Whatever it is, the moment you take a seat in one of the maroon lounge car booths, it’s almost as though you’ve stepped back in time and are about to embark on long, comfortable train ride.

It’s Friday afternoon, the sun is shining. And with a glass of red

wine on the table in front of me, I scan the menu to see what’s avail-

able. Beef frajolaki, buffalo express burger, strawberry spinach almon-

dine salad, peppercorn chicken with asparagus raisin medley…

Not sure why I’m even looking at this, though. Before I even came here, I knew what I was getting. Not so long ago someone told me the steak at the Saskatoon Station Place was pretty darn good. So here I am. And when the waitress brings it to me, I can’t help but be pleased with what I see.

There on the plate laying next to a dollop of whipped potatoes, atop a few sprigs of asparagus and a balsamic drizzle, is a thick, juicy looking steak. Much thicker than I’d imagined. May a two-and-a-half, three inch thick slab of top sir-loin. Wrapped in bacon, it’s topped

with a blue-cheese-and-rosemary sauce and a mound of fried onions. Without further ado, I take a sip of wine and dig in.

As my knife slices through the steak, a smile tugs at the corner of my mouth. Not sure about you, but I can’t count how many times I’ve gone to a restaurant and ordered a rare steak only to cut into the meat and find that it’s been cooked medium rare — or worse.

But not here. At the Saskatoon Station Place my steak was per-fectly cooked, with a pretty good marble to it.

The first bite is good. Real good. And as I get closer towards the cen-tre, the more the blue-cheese-and-

rosemary sauce begins to stand out. Talk about tasty!

And the rest of it is good too — the asparagus is cooked right (not too soggy, not too stiff), the potatoes are smooth and buttery, and the onions are tasty (especially when you dip them in the balsamic sauce). Paired with a good glass of red wine, it makes for a terrific meal on a sunny Friday afternoon.

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Coming upnext Week

tim hicks

It’s been a helluva year for Tim Hicks. After opening for Dallas Smith and Chad Brownlee on the 2012 Boys of Fall tour, the country musician from St. Catharines, Ontario, released his debut single, “Get By” — co-written by the guys from Florida Georgia Line and Neil Sanderson of three Days Grace. The song cracked the Canadian Hot 100 (#57) in February 2013 and was later certified gold. And right-fully so. Like most of the songs on his excellent debut album Throw Down, “Get By” is an upbeat country anthem that’ll pull you out of your chair and make you want to party. It’s the kind of music that makes you want to crack a beer and hang out with your friends. Hicks will be performing at Outlaws next week, so come on down! Tickets at picatic.com.

@ outlaws thursday, september 19– $18.50

Linkin Park, K’naan, Mos Def, Talib Kweli — these area few of the names Chali 2na (aka Charles Stewart) has collaborated with since bursting onto the rap scene. And those are just state-side artists. Across the pond, he’s worked with British hip hop star Roots Manuva, Dutch rapper Jerome XL and British dubstep master Rusko. It hasn’t been all collaborative work, though. In 2009, Chali 2na released his debut album, Fish Outta Water. Then, earlier this year, he pumped out his second record, Against the Current. Both albums are marked by Chali 2na’s deep baritone and infectious beats, which are influenced by everything form reggae to soul music. He’s in Saskatoon next week, and will be kicking it at Louis’. Don’t miss the show. Tickets at Ticketmaster, Louis’ and Undergrind.

chali 2na

Do you know how The Good Love-lies met? No? Don’t worry, neither do they. Sue Passmore thinks they all met at a limbo competition, Caroline Brooks believes it was at a chess tournament, and Kerri Ough, well, she’s certain they all met during a bar fight. No matter, what’s important here is that these three ladies from Ontario eventually got together to form a band. And what a band it is! With catchy songwrit-ing and an upbeat folky sound, this talented trio have been winning over fans in Canada and beyond. And their efforts have not gone unnoticed. In 2010, their album, The Good Lovelies, won a Juno for Roots/Traditional Album of the year. Don’t miss them when they perform during the Vinyl Cafe Christmas show in December. Tickets at tcutickets.ca

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@ louIs’ pubFriday, september 20 – $20+

sask music PreviewOne of the biggest drum events to happen in Canada, the 3rd annual Regina Drum Festival, is back again! On September 28 + 29, the Exchange and the Club will host world class players who perform in the genres of metal, jazz, funk and more. The trade show will feature a vintage drum expo and a fastest hands competition, not to mention Matt Halpern, Mark Kelso and Steve Ferrone — all that and more, all weekend! Weekend passes are $55, and available at Long and McQuade in Regina, Boomtown Drums and www.ticketedge.ca

Keep up with saskatchewan music. saskmusic.org

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The most complete live music listings for Saskatoon.

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friday 13house DJs / 6Twelve Lounge — Funk,

soul & lounge DJs liven it up. 9pm / No

cover

CFCR FM-Phasis ’13 / Amigos — Featuring

Shoeless Joes and more. 10pm / Cover TBD

aDRean FaRRugia / Bassment — Come out

for some jazz tunes. 4:30pm / No cover

ZaChaRy LuCky / Bassment — With the

Karpinka Brothers and more. 9pm / $15/20

DJ aash Money / Béily’s UltraLounge —

DJ Aash Money throws down a high-ener-

gy top 40 dance party every Friday night.

9pm / $5 cover

Men Without shaMe / Buds on Broad-

way — A glamified classic rock party

band. 9pm / Cover TBD

BPM / Diva’s — Resident DJs

spin electro/vocal house

music. 10pm / $5

haRvest DanCe / German Club — Fea-

turing Snake River,

Black Drink Crier

and more. 9pm

/ $12(advance),

$15(door)

DJ eCLeCtiC / The

Hose & Hydrant

— Local turntable

whiz DJ Eclectic

pumps snappy

electronic beats. 8pm

/ No cover

DJ stikMan / Jax

Niteclub — Kick off your

weekend with all your favou-

rite party hits.. 9pm / $5 cover

the nightRain / Louis’ — A Guns N’

Roses tribute band. 9pm / Cover TBD

FRiDay the 13th / Odeon — Featuring J.A.

DJ, D-Monic and more. 10pm / $20+

DJ Big ayyy & DJ henChMan / Outlaws

— Round up your friends. 8pm / $5; ladies

in free before 11pm

tWo taLL DuDes / Prairie Ink — A pop/

acoustic duo. 8pm / No cover

PoCket aCes / Stan’s — Come on down

for a rockin’ good night. 9pm / No cover

DueLing Pianos / Staqatto — Terry

Hoknes, Neil Currie and Brad King belt out

classic tunes and audience requests,from

Sinatra to Lady Gaga. 10pm / $5

PaRty RoCk FRiDays / Tequila — Featur-

ing DJ Anchor. 9pm / Cover TBD

DJ niCk Ruston / Uncle Barley’s — Come

and check him out! 9pm / Cover TBD

BRass Buttons / Vangelis — Also ap-

pearing is Keiffer McLean. 10pm / Cover

TBD

saturday 14house DJs / 6Twelve — Resident DJs spin

deep and soulful tunes. 9pm / No cover

CFCR FM-Phasis ’13 / Amigos Cantina —

Featuring Pandas in Japan, Cousins and

Haunted Souls. 10pm / Cover TBD

soPhia PeRLMan QuaRtet / The

Bassment — A talented vocalist with an

all-star band. 9pm / $20/25

DJs aash Money + sugaR DaDDy / Béily’s — These two DJs throw it down.

9pm / $5

Men Without shaMe / Buds — A

classic rock

party band. 9pm / Cover TBD

the eagLes / CUC — Legendary rockers

from LA. 8pm / $64.50+ (ticketmaster.ca)

satuRgay night / Diva’s — Resident DJs

spin exclusive dance remixes. 10pm / $5

DJ kaDe / The Hose — Saskatoon’s own DJ

lights it up with hot tunes. 8pm / No cover

DJ stikMan / Jax — Ladies night with the

Jax party crew. 9pm / $5 cover

BitChFaCe + MoRe / Louis’ — It’s a one of

a kind show! 9pm / $10


Country Rock Bar — Round up your

friends ‘cause there’s no better country

rock party around. 8pm / $5

Whiskey on a sunDay / Prairie Ink —

A folk/pop/country/Irish trio. 8pm /

No cover

BLaCk heLL oiL + MoRe / Rock

Bottom — Come out for a night

of hard rock and old style metal.

9pm / Cover TBD

PoCket aCes / Stan’s Place —

Come out for a rockin’ good

night. 9pm / No cover

DueLing Pianos / Staqa-

tto Piano Lounge — With Terry

Hoknes, Neil Currie + Brad King.

10pm / $5

DJ anChoR / Sutherland Bar — It’s

the world famous video mix show!

10pm / Cover TBD

evening at the oPeRa / TCU Place —

Featuring John Brancy and Wallis Guinta.

7:30pm / $32.50+ (tcutickets.ca)

sexy satuRDays / Tequila — A

night of hot tunes. 9pm / Cover

TBD

DJ thoRPDeo / Uncle

Barley’s — Spinning hot

tunes all night. 10pm /

Cover TBD

RiDe tiL DaWn + MoRe / Vangelis —

Four hot acts! 10pm

/ Cover TBD

sun-day 15

BRaiD / Amigos —

Also featuring Mark

Webber. 10pm / Cover

TBD

inDustRy night / Béily’s

— Hosted by DJ Sugar Daddy.

9pm / $4

DJ kaDe / The Hose — Saskatoon DJ

lights it up with hot tunes. 8pm / No cover

BLues JaM / Vangelis Tavern — The

Vangelis Sunday Jam offers great tunes

from blues to rock and beyond. 7:30pm /

No cover

Matt ePP / Village Guitar Shop — Soulful

folk with pop sensibilities. 8pm / $10

monday 16BRaiD / Amigos — An art-rock band from

Calgary. Also featuring Mark Webber.

10pm / Cover TBD

the BLue MuLes /

Buds

— Playing

blues all night long. 9pm / Cover TBD

DJ auDio / Dublins — Spinning dope

beats. 9pm / Cover TBD

tuesday 17toM hoLListon / Amigos Cantina —

Former member of No Means No doing his

solo thing. 10pm / Cover TBD

Jesse RoaDs BanD / Buds — Rockin’

music from Lethbridge. 9pm / Cover TBD

DJ sugaR DaDDy / The Double Deuce —

This crowd favourite rocks. 9:30pm / $4

DJ niCk Ruston / Dublins — Spinning

dope beats. 9pm / Cover TBD

veRB PResents oPen MiC / Rock Bottom —

Come and rock the stage! 9pm / No cover

oPen MiC / The Somewhere Else Pub —

Come out to show your talent. 7pm / No

cover

CoRinna Rose W/ eLiZa anD FRienDs / Vangelis — Folk music from Montreal.

9pm / $8

wednesday 18huMP WeDnesDays / 302 Lounge &

Discotheque — Resident DJ Chris Knorr

will be spinning all of your favourite songs.

9pm / No cover until 10pm; $3 thereafter

DJ aash Money / Béily’s — Spinning

dope beats all night. 9pm / Cover TBD

Jesse RoaDs BanD / Buds — Rockin’

music from Lethbridge. 9pm / Cover TBD

DJ MeMo / Dublins — Spinning dope

beats. 9pm / Cover TBD

DJ kaDe / The Hose & Hydrant — Saska-

toon DJ lights it up with hot tunes. 8pm

/ No cover

tRiviuM, DeviLDRiveR / Odeon — With After the

Burial & Sylosis. 6pm

/ $32.50

CJWW kaRaoke / Stan’s Place —

Your talent,

aired on the

radio! 9pm /

No cover

BuCk WiLD WeDnes-Days / Outlaws

— Come out

and ride the

mechanical

bull! 9pm / $4; no

cover for industry

staff

DueLing Pianos / Staqatto Piano Lounge —

With Terry Hoknes, Neil Currie

and Brad King. 10pm / No cover

CaLvin Love / Vangelis — With Body Lvl.

9pm / $8

thursday 19Les JuPes / Amigos Cantina — Indie rock-

ers out of Winnipeg. 10pm / Cover TBD

haRRison JaMes BanD / Buds on Broad-

way — Rockin’ tunes to pass the night

away. 9pm / Cover TBD

thRoWBaCk thuRsDays / Earls — Come

experience the best in retro funk, soul,

reggae and rock provided by Dr. J. 8pm /

No cover

DJ kaDe / The Hose — Saskatoon DJ lights

it up with hot tunes. 8pm / No cover

DJ gooDtiMes / Longbranch — Playing

the best country music all night long. 8pm

/ Cover TBD

tWiZtiD / Odeon — A hip-hop duo from

Michigan. 8pm / $25+ (theodeon.ca)

thunDeR Riot W/Conky shoWPony / Rock Bottom — Come dance the night

away. 9pm / $5

tRiPLe uP thuRsDays / Tequila — Featur-

ing DJ Dislexic. 9pm / Cover TBD

aRoaRa / Vangelis — Haunting music

from a Montreal duo. 9pm / $10/12

oPen stage / The Woods — Hosted by

Steven Maier. 9pm / No cover

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friday 20house DJs / 6Twelve Lounge — Funk, soul

& lounge DJs liven it up. 9pm / No cover

CFCR FM-Phasis ’13 / Amigos Cantina —

Featuring Young Galaxy, Human Human,

and We Were Lovers. 10pm / $10

Piano FRiDays: DaviD Fong / The Bassment — Come check

out Fong tickle the ivories.

4:30pm / No cover

Roots seRies: Ryan BoLDt / The Bassment

— The Deep Dark

Woods’ frontman goes

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DJ aash Money / Béily’s UltraLounge —

DJ Aash Money throws

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every Friday night. 9pm

/ $5 cover

RiPPeRtRain / Buds on

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metal. 9pm / Cover TBD

BPM / Diva’s — Resident DJs spin

electro/vocal house music. 10pm / $5

DJ eCLeCtiC / The Hose — Local turn-

table whiz pumps snappy beats. 8pm / No

cover

DJ stikMan / Jax Niteclub — It’s all your

favourite party hits.. 9pm / $5 cover

ChaLi 2na / Louis’ — Featuring Hustle and

Thrive. 8pm / $20

iRon anD Wine / Odeon — A talented

singer/songwriter. 7pm / $36.75


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face. 9pm / No cover

the stanDaRDs tRio / Prairie Ink —

Featuring Don Sawchuck, Todd Gursky

and Matt Gruza. 8pm / No cover

BLue highWay / Stan’s Place — Come on

down for a rockin’ night. 9pm / No cover

DueLing Pianos / Staqatto — With Terry

Hoknes, Neil Currie + Brad King. 10pm / $5

PaRty RoCk FRiDays / Tequila —

Featuring DJ Anchor. 9pm / Cover

TBD

DJ niCk Ruston / Uncle

Barley’s — Come and

check him out! 9pm /

Cover TBD

oLD Joe anD the tRuth huRts / Vangelis — Also

appearing:

Vicokid and

the Milky Way.

10pm / $10

sat-ur-

day 21house DJs / 6Twelve

— Resident DJs spin

deep and soulful tunes all

night. 9pm / No cover

CFCR FM-Phasis ’13 / Amigos —

Featuring the Karpinka Bros. + more.

10pm / $7

Ray stePhanson anD the Moxon tRio / The Bassment — Reworked jazz stan-

dards. 9pm / $15/20

DJ aash Money + DJ sugaR DaDDy / Béily’s — It’s a dance party. 9pm /

$5 cover

RiPPeRtRain / Buds on Broadway — Local

rock/alt-metal. 9pm / Cover TBD

ZaC BRoWn BanD / CUC — One of

the hottest acts in country music. 7pm /

$39.50+

satuRgay night / Diva’s — Resident DJs

spin exclusive dance remixes. 10pm / $5

DJ kaDe / The Hose — Saskatoon’s

own DJ lights it up with hot tunes. 8pm

/ No cover

DJ stikMan / Jax — Ladies’ night with the

Jax party crew. 9pm / $5 cover

hoMeCoMing shoW / Lakeview

Church — With Pavlychenko Folklorique

Ensemble and the Lastiwka Ukrainian

Orthodox Choir + Orchestra. 7pm / $25

(McNally Robinson, Point Optical, Werezak

Pharmacy)


— Round up your friends. 8pm / $5

Bass invaDeRs / Piggy’s — Get ready for

some bass for your face. 9pm / No cover

Jon BaiLey / Prairie Ink — Local rock/folk

music. 8pm / No cover

BLue highWay / Stan’s Place — It’s a

rockin’ good night. 9pm / No cover

DueLing Pianos / Staqatto — Terry

Hoknes, Neil Currie + Brad King. 10pm / $5

DJ anChoR / Sutherland Bar — It’s a video

mix show! 10pm / Cover TBD

sexy satuRDays / Tequila — A night of

hot tunes. 9pm / Cover TBD

DJ thoRPDeo / Uncle Barley’s — Spinning

hot tunes all night. 10pm / Cover TBD

highkiCks / Vangelis — Some honest to

goodness rock ‘n roll. 10pm / Cover TBD

saM MitCheLL / The Woods — A night of

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RAINBOW

ou know what really grinds my gears?

When a movie seems to have all the components to be amazing, yet somehow fails to put them all together into one big ball of awesomeness.

Only reason I mention this is because the other day, before I sat down to watch The Family, there was a fleeting moment when I said to myself, “You know what? This has the potential to be an excellent movie.”

It really does. Think about it. It has top-notch actors in it like Robert De Niro, Michelle Pfeiffer, and Tommy Lee Jones. The writer/director, Luc Besson, is no slouch. After all, he’s the guy responsible for The Fifth Element, The Professional and La Femme Ni-kita. It had good subject matter — the mafia. A fantastic narrator in De Niro. And it’s a mixture of dark comedy and action.

Yesirree, on the surface The Family had all the makings of a ter-rific movie. But, like so many films before it, The Family fails to put all the pieces together to make an amazing whole.

Sure it’s good and fun and enter-taining and all, but amazing? No way.

The movie starts out with Giovanni Manzoni (De Niro) living in the wit-ness protection program under the name Fred Blake. He and his family are on their way to small-town France after having been relocated from their previous hideout.

Why were they relocated?Well, you can take the family out

of the mob, but you can’t take the mob out of the family. And this clan — well, they’re a real handful.

You see this once they get settled in their new hometown.

Fred plans to spend the time qui-etly writing a memoir of his mafioso past. The writing soothes him … or so he thinks. When a plumber tries to

rip him off, Fred snaps his leg. When his tap starts spitting brown water, he bombs the hell out of a nearby chemi-cal plant.

And the rest of the family is just as violent.

Fred’s wife, Maggie (Pfeiffer) blows up a grocery store. His son, Warren (an excellent John D’Leo) is busy exacting revenge on the bullies in his new high school. And his daughter, Belle (Dianna Agron) has a penchant for beating the crap out of local boys who think American women are easy.

And while all this is going on, the guy trying to keep the family out of trouble, agent Stansfield (Tommy Lee Jones), is growing more and more frustrated with his assignment.

Sound like a fun, dark romp to you? It is. In fact, that may be one of

things holding The Family back from being a great movie. There’s too much fun, not enough noirish mafioso stuff.

That, and the fact that you can’t help but feel you’ve seen most of these characters before. De Niro goes a little Analyze This/That, Jones plays a watered down version of his character in The Fugitive, and Pfeiffer goes at it from a Married to the Mob angle (albeit better and turned down a notch.)

All that being said, The Family is still worth a watch. There are some great action scenes and big belly laughs to be had. Just don’t expect a classic (or even a cult classic) when you walk into the theatre.

Film

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y

yet despite all that, The Family still doesn’t live up to its potential by adam hawboldt

the family

directed By Luc Besson

starring Robert De Niro, Michelle

Pfeiffer + Tommy Lee Jones

112 minutes | 14a

laughs, violence and roBert de niro

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in the Backgroundfascinating new documentary, 20 Feet from Stardom, looks at the life and times of renowned back-up singers by adam hawboldt

r ape, murder! It’s just a shot awayIt’s just a shot away.”

Quick, what song is that from?If you answered “Gimme Shelter”

by the Rolling Stones, you’re absolutely right. Now for a tougher question: who sang that line, right around the three-minute mark of the song?

Here’s a hint. It wasn’t Mick Jagger. It wasn’t Keith Richards, either (though there is an eerie version in which he does sing those lyrics).

Okay, do you give up?The lady’s name was Merry

Clayton. A former Raelette with Ray Charles, who also sang on Lynyrd Skynyrd’s “Sweet Home Alabama,” Clayton is one of the back-up singers interviewed in Morgan Neville’s new film, 20 Feet from Stardom.

She’s not the only one. There’s Lisa Fisher, who sang with

Sting and won a Grammy, but didn’t seize the moment to launch her solo career. There’s Claudia Lennear, a for-mer Ikette with Ike Turner, who Mick Jagger wrote the song “Brown Sugar” about. Then there’s Darlene Love, a staple on records by everyone from

Frank Sinatra to James Brown, who was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2011.

These are just a handful of the dozen or so back-up singers that Neville sits down and chats with dur-ing the 89-minute duration of his film. And their stories, well, they really are something. Some are sad, some are uplifting, some are enlightening. But all are entertaining, giving the viewer an intimate look into the oft-overlooked world of back-up singing.

But don’t be mistaken. 20 Feet from Stardom isn’t just some woe-is-me tale about a bunch of talented people who didn’t make it as far as they liked in the industry. No.

It’s also an examination of how important these singers are to the creation of timeless songs and just how damn hard it is to make the leap from background to centre stage.

According to Bruce Springsteen — one of the many frontmen recruited

by Neville for the film — to make that leap: “You gotta have that narcissism … You gotta have that ego.”

And even if you have the afore-mentioned things, along with the necessary musical chops, making it in the music industry is definitely no easy task.

“It’s not a level playing field,” explains Sting, on the documentary. “It’s not about fairness, not really about talent. It’s circumstance, it’s luck, it’s destiny.”

Therein lies the theme of 20 Feet from Stardom: for one reason or another, not everyone is destined to be a star. In fact, there isn’t even one particular star of this excellent documentary. All these renowned back-up singers share centre stage, tell their stories and leave the viewer with the feeling that “Hot damn! These singers may not have made it to the apex, but without them some of our favourite songs just might not be our favourite songs.”

And while the film drags a bit at times, and will remind some of 2002’s Standing in the Shadows of Motown, there are enough snappy interviews and clips of lost footage that it’s one of those must-see documentaries.

20 Feet from Stardom is currently being screened at Broadway Theatre.

20 feet from stardom

directed By Morgan Neville

starring Darlene Love +

Judith Hill

89 minutes | nr

photo: courtesy of the weInsteIn company

…there are enough snappy interviews and clips of lost footage that it’s one of those must-see documentaries.

adam hawboldt

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© walter d. feener 2013

sudoku crossword answer key

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sudoku answer key

a

b

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across 1. Inside information

5. Close with a bang

9. Air controller’s place

10. It’s here before tomorrow

12. A bruise surrounding

the eye

13. Inuit jacket

15. Chick’s mom

16. Iridescent layer of a

mollusc shell

18. Greek X

19. Work units

21. Make doilies

22. Temporary state of mind

23. Loss of hope

25. Spanish dollars

26. Canine neighbour

28. Very little

31. Fine linen cloth

35. Decrease in size

36. Milk source

37. Doughnut shapes

38. Biblical boat

39. Not expertly made

41. Unfriendly dog

42. National dance of

Spain

44. Bearlike

46. Notes at the office

47. Act like a person who

is ashamed to be seen

48. Eats with a spoon

49. Bluish shade of green

down 1. One’s actions

2. Have a deed for

3. End of a hammerhead

4. Unpredictable

5. Get going

6. Being the only one

7. Bustling activity

8. Lisa of ìThe Listener’

9. Where I point

11. Exclamation of joy

12. Rid oneself of

14. Most parents have them

17. Alberta’s ___ Mountains

20. Back of a book

22. Be worthy of

24. Hard-working insect

25. Home for a house plant

27. Component of

particleboard

28. Wash the deck

29. Billiards shot

30. Socks cover them

32. Living together in

communities

33. It’s at the rear of

most cars

34. Ireland, in Ireland

36. Christian symbol

39. Trim a photograph

40. Eagle of the sea

43. Big bird

45. Skipper’s domain

timeout

crossword Canadian Criss-Cross

aries march 21–april 19

Feel like doing something a little

different today, Aries? Go for

it. Branch out in directions you never

thought possible.

taurus april 20–may 20

If you’re feeling flustered or un-

able to communicate this week,

why not try to get your thoughts in order

by writing them down? Then take action.

gemini may 21–June 20

You may find it exceedingly diffi-

cult to get going early in the week,

Gemini, but this will pass. Now is the time

to act on those impulses!

cancer June 21–July 22

Cheerful and generous. That’s what

you should strive to be this week,

Cancer. Even if you don’t feel up to it, some-

one around you could really use the boost.

leo July 23–august 22

Big changes are on the horizon,

Leo. Some you can control, others

you can’t, but all will be worth it. Enjoy

the ride.

virgo august 23–september 22

Your reasoning and judgement

powers are going to be firing on

all cylinders this week, Virgo. It’s time to

confront those hard-to-make decisions.

liBra september 23–october 23

Energy is going to be hard to come

by over the next few days, Libra.

But don’t let that stop you from getting

things done.

scorPio october 24–november 22

This is a week for socializing,

Scorpio. The sun is still shining,

the weather’s still warm, so get out there

and meet people.

sagittarius november 23–december 21

You might feel the urge to contact

someone you miss, Sagittarius. Give

in to the urge, even if it hurts. The rewards

from doing so could astound you.

caPricorn december 22–January 19

This is gonna be one of those

weeks where daydreaming comes

easily, Capricorn. Let your imagination

roam free, and follow your heart.

aQuarius January 20–february 19

Make an effort to contact your

loved ones this week, Aquarius.

Chatting with people is the name of this

game. You’ll be glad you did.

Pisces february 20–march 20

Summer is coming to an end, Pi-

sces. So take some time to get out

and enjoy what’s left of it. The upcoming

months could be busy for you.

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